If you could choose ONE thing to right the ship, what would it be?
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lennypartiv
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The Deep State has gotten out of control.
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Everyone votes on election day in person, unless you're serving overseas. Period.
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We can start by decriminalizing drug use and only making the selling of narcotics a felony-capital crime, subject to the death penalty. The war on drugs is a war on the American people, especially poor blacks, and whites.
Get rid of gross inequality. In the golden age of our economy, the highest tax rate was set at 93%. Between 1950 and 1980, the highest-paid CEOs in America got paid 30 to 40 times higher than the lowest-paid workers in their companies. Today Fortune 500 CEOs make up to 1000 times more than their lowest-paid workers:
"CEO C. McMillon, who earned $25.7 million in 2022, or 1,013 times the $25,335 median income of a Walmart employee. The world’s largest retailer, which was founded in 1945 and employs 2.1 million workers, has the lowest CEO-to-worker pay ratio of these 22 companies."
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These American CEOs are paid 1,000 times more than their employees
CEOs of companies listed on the S&P 500 earned an average of $18.8 million last year, up about 21% from the previous year, Times recently reported. This jump in executive pay came despite an 18% drop in the market index in 2022. Many of these CEOs were gifted generous stock options by their...www.baltimoresun.com
1/3rd of the American workforce between the 1950s and late 70s, was unionized.
One breadwinner in the family working a blue-collar job could support the whole family.
The United States was the manufacturing hub of the world, with the largest, best-paid, and happiest middle class. Americans had the highest standard of living, surpassing that of the Europeans and Japanese.
The American economy was based on production/manufacturing, hence we were more independent than ever, due to our ability to manufacture anything we needed, like for example, masks for our nurses or respirators for our citizens in the middle of a deadly, nationwide pandemic.
We could quickly manufacture whatever the country was in need of without begging China, India, or anyone else.
All of this changed in the 1980s, turning our economy from manufacturing to finance (wall street speculation) and low-paying service industries. The Republicans under Ronald Reagan, gutted our manufacturing base and lowered taxes on the wealthiest members of our society from 70% to 28%. They broke up all of the labor unions and deregulated commerce to the point that workers could no longer effectively unionize, without placing their jobs in serious jeopardy.
We need to address the drug war, labor rights, cost of living, wages, restoring our manufacturing base, drug prices, healthcare, education, and homelessness. A robust social safety net for the working-class has to be established, which includes Social Security and Medicare (Medicaid should be replaced with universal Medicare). We should prioritize the value and importance of work and workers, over wealth and privilege.
Why do you communists all love these massive cut and paste dumps?
Nobody reads them.
candycorn
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Yeah in any other country the brief facts alone that you listed would blow the whole laptop non-story out of the water.
Gee, you mean to tell me that the laptop repair guy didn't call the police, didn't call the sheriff, didn't call the federal Marshalls, etc... he made a copy of child porn (which is a felony by the way) and passed it to Rudy Gulliani? Yeah...that tracks.
In Conservistan, that makes perfect sense.
candycorn
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We should probably have a conversation/come to a realization in this nation that capitalism is fantastic but not all institutions--some of which are vital-- thrive in a capitalist system. Newspapers for one. We need to come up with a system by which they can hold officials accountable, report news to citizens at a granular level, and stay in business even though the capitalistic business model doesn't work in that case.
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It's predictable that would happen when Democrats import voters from south of the border.
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You're ignoring reality. You're what Stalin called a "useful idiot".
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We can start by decriminalizing drug use and only making the selling of narcotics a felony-capital crime, subject to the death penalty. The war on drugs is a war on the American people, especially poor blacks, and whites.
Get rid of gross inequality. In the golden age of our economy, the highest tax rate was set at 93%. Between 1950 and 1980, the highest-paid CEOs in America got paid 30 to 40 times higher than the lowest-paid workers in their companies. Today Fortune 500 CEOs make up to 1000 times more than their lowest-paid workers:
"CEO C. McMillon, who earned $25.7 million in 2022, or 1,013 times the $25,335 median income of a Walmart employee. The world’s largest retailer, which was founded in 1945 and employs 2.1 million workers, has the lowest CEO-to-worker pay ratio of these 22 companies."
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These American CEOs are paid 1,000 times more than their employees
CEOs of companies listed on the S&P 500 earned an average of $18.8 million last year, up about 21% from the previous year, Times recently reported. This jump in executive pay came despite an 18% drop in the market index in 2022. Many of these CEOs were gifted generous stock options by their...
1/3rd of the American workforce between the 1950s and late 70s, was unionized.
One breadwinner in the family working a blue-collar job could support the whole family.
The United States was the manufacturing hub of the world, with the largest, best-paid, and happiest middle class. Americans had the highest standard of living, surpassing that of the Europeans and Japanese.
The American economy was based on production/manufacturing, hence we were more independent than ever, due to our ability to manufacture anything we needed, like for example, masks for our nurses or respirators for our citizens in the middle of a deadly, nationwide pandemic.
We could quickly manufacture whatever the country was in need of without begging China, India, or anyone else.
All of this changed in the 1980s, turning our economy from manufacturing to finance (wall street speculation) and low-paying service industries. The Republicans under Ronald Reagan, gutted our manufacturing base and lowered taxes on the wealthiest members of our society from 70% to 28%. They broke up all of the labor unions and deregulated commerce to the point that workers could no longer effectively unionize, without placing their jobs in serious jeopardy.
We need to address the drug war, labor rights, cost of living, wages, restoring our manufacturing base, drug prices, healthcare, education, and homelessness. A robust social safety net for the working-class has to be established, which includes Social Security and Medicare (Medicaid should be replaced with universal Medicare). We should prioritize the value and importance of work and workers, over wealth and privilege.
The cure for left/prog/commies
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How much was Fox's settlement with Dominion again?
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Bud, I grew up in that era.
My parents both had too work. my aunts and uncles all had to work, the exception being those that made their living farming, and some of them had second jobs to make ends meet.
You have either been brainwashed, or you're being paid to post bullshit.
no one with a brain believes you.
Not picking on people isnt catering to fringes. The fringe is wealthy grifters who were catered to by Trump or conspiracy election nuts or antivax nuts also catered to by the right.
While the right gets off over dozens of trans citizens, pizza parlor basements, bamboo ballots, and secret pedo rings Biden’s legislation has been transformative. Don’t believe me? Ask MTG.
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There's no reason to impose such arbitrary limits and austerities on the American working class or limit government budgets to only 2% of our GDP. We need to properly fund our military and invest in the American people, making America truly Great Again.
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Most internet communists are just kids going that stage in life kids go through.
I went through it at 15, myself.
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My maternal grandfather migrated here from Cuba in 1961 with my grandmother, mother, and aunt. When he set foot on American soil, he only had a few dollars in his pocket. He got a job with Bertram Yachts, spraying fiberglass on Yacht hull molds. In 1965, four years later, he bought his house in South Miami, Florida, 100% cash, without a bank loan. He was the sole breadwinner in the family, supporting his wife and children. I know many people who lived in that era and they have similar stories. Of course, there were exceptions, but the fact is that after WW2, the US became the manufacturing base of the world, providing Europe, Japan, and everyone, with high-quality American products. That created high-paying jobs.
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Repeal the 17th amendment..
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Repeal the 19th Amendment.
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